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We hitched our bicycles to our SUV and went outside. We took downstate day trips. One such Saturday trip took us to Columbus, Ohio where we found ourselves cycling down Columbus’ major thoroughfare, High Street, at noon. It was bereft of any vehicular traffic.
Travel In The Time Of Covid And
S tepping through the door, I patted the outside skin of the plane with my right hand as I always do, “Ok, let’s get there safely.” Once inside, it hit me. “Wow, smells like someone spilled a bottle of Windex or something.” Shuffling down the aisle with the other passengers to our seats, my wife Paula, and I began to take our seats as normal. We grabbed the seat backs to squeeze in. My hand slipped. It was wet. Looking down, I realized the seat itself was too wet to sit on — sanitizer. The
source of the ‘Windex.’
This earliest experience of plane travel in the dawn of the Time of Covid came suddenly. Our FDCC 2020 Winter Meeting drew to a close the night before at the Scottsdale Camelback Inn & Resort, with hundreds of our members enjoying each other’s company amongst a sumptuous outdoor barbecue during an evening embedded in country music, in futuristic star and moon watching through powerful telescopes guided by lasers into the sky contrasted with old west photography, a
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CRAIG A. MARVINNEY
Walter | Haverfield Cleveland, OH
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